Birds in the back yard

[mike89]

Water.....and then..

couple cold beers and now a brandy water...   

[mike89]

robins are still here!!

[glenn57]

robins are still here!!

yea and I see loons on the lake too!! 

Be kinda sweet to see though in Jan/feb... but you know what they say... see robins,they get snowed on 3 times!!

[mike89]

I'm sure we will get more snow sometimes these next couple months...   I would think anyway!!!   

[HD]

Yup, we got a ton of Robins running around here too....

[Dotch]

Had a flicker back at the feeders this a.m. Other notables include blue hays, juncos, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, house finches, downies, hairies & a red belly. Not surprisingly, the feeders don't need filling as often. Thistle seed price is outrageous so bought a small bag of finch mix to tide them over. Still like the price of my ear corn-free! 

[glenn57]

birds are nonexistent here at home. maybe get a few finches once a week that i notice!!

last time at the cabin they had cleaned out the feeders from the last time i was up. that peanut butter feeder .......that was emptied every night.

[fishwidow]

A gang of really fat blue jays really gorging themselves here.

[roony]

Bigfoot loves peanut butter.

[glenn57]

Bigfoot loves peanut butter.

i kept looking for his tracks......but didnt find any.......... and my dog .'s hair on his back didnt stand up, so.....

i'm more concerned about them effin wolves........if anyone read that thread on IDO......i'm bringing a big gun up this next time!!!!!

[glenn57]

Here's the  peanut butter  bird feeder I've been yapping about. The 1 at home anyway . This spring I'm gonna gather some oak birch and maple branches and  make some.

[LPS]

Good idea.  Did you make the holes and then fill with peanut butter or do you look for one with holes in it?

[glenn57]

mom had these when we were cleaning out the house, so i decided to use them. i'm going to make some. the holes wer put in. i'd assume with wood auger bits. thats what i'm going to do.

with the way they clean them out at the cabin i need a few more. 

[roony]

Seems like a good idea that your mother thought of.

[glenn57]

Seems like a good idea that your mother thought of.

yea i'd bet my step dad made them and thought of it from others!!!!

[LPS]

     SO do add anything to the peanut butter or just give it to them straight?   

[glenn57]

I mix sunflower seeds in the peanut butter 

[Bobberineyes]

Think I'll try that out west Glenn,  thanks.  I'm filling feeders here in town like they've never ate before.  The finches are just plain nuts. It's funny tho the neighbors brush piles house the sparrows,  in the afternoons they use my wheel wells as a hiding spot. I barely had the pick em up in park and they landed on my tires..

[Bobberineyes]

How bout tree rats, how you keeping them out?

[glenn57]

How bout tree rats, how you keeping them out?

both the feeders i have like that at the cabin and here at home i have hanging from a Shepards hook away from trees. i've never noticed any tree rats around them...........there to busy under the sunflower feeders!!!!!

[fishwidow]

The peanut butter feeder I have is three 1”x 3” s about a foot long that are glued together with 1 1/2” holes drilled through them.   Same idea.  Bought some natural peanut butter with a bunch of different seeds already in it. I didn’t care for it myself, but I mixed sunflower chips and thistle in it to make it pretty thick and the birds really liked it. Especially the nuthatches.

When I bought this house there were several old birdhouses that someone had made out of birch about 6” high and 4” in diameter, hollowed out with some lathe shingles for a roof. They’ve all fallen apart now, but I keep thinking about making some new ones.
Could send the plans to you to attract some wrens, Roony.

[glenn57]

^^^^

[Dotch]

 

[markn]

How bout tree rats, how you keeping them out?

17cal HMR. 

[roony]

I like to put sticky traps in the wren houses.

[LPS]

I think you really love wrens.  You may be a wren wrangler.   

[roony]

The bliebird killing sob's.

[Dotch]

Noted a few more goldfinches yesterday. Starting to see some subtle hints of yellow on a few of them. Guessing they're the males. Chickadees are doing their springtime "fee-bee" call while the cardinals are starting to sing in the mornings. A couple of fox squirrels have been squashed in the road. Cats must've dragged them into the barn to snack on. Corn fed so they should be tasty.   

[tangle tooth]

      Dotch, your lucky. We haven't seen a goldfinch in a long time. Finch feeders haven't been touched.

[Dotch]

The goldfinches appear to be real sporadic though. Saw them this a.m. then noticed they hadn't pulled the feeders down appreciably when I was home at lunchtime. There was a sudden smattering of goldfinches then and as quickly as they appeared, they were gone. Got a feeling the Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawks have been following them along with lots of other birds recently. Plus with the snow all gone, they've got access to lots of food other than what's in our feeders.